abolition, decolonize;
anti-Zionist, diasporist Jewishness
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Book - Beyond Education: Radical Studying for Another World
Jun 26 ā¢ 15 tweets ā¢ 6 min read
Jewish Life at Duke University presents their "Antisemitism 101 Training" as impartial. But from attending the training, I found it to be Zionist indoctrination. So I wrote this op-ed.
š§µ 1/15
The kids are rising upādefying Zionist bullies and refusing Israel's genocide in Gaza!
Their teacher was attacked by Zionists for having a Palestinian flag in her class. After the admin made her remove it, her students walked out and recreated the flag on her board.
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"Freshman Brandon Goodson wants his math teacher back.
Goodson and approx. 30 other students walked out of class this morning at 9:30 to protest math teacher Kayla Thompsonās absence. āItās not fair,ā Goodson said. āWeāre standing for her because she canāt do it by herself.ā" 2/6
Mar 12 ā¢ 11 tweets ā¢ 5 min read
Zionists are scared of Jonathan Glazer.
He refuted their hijacking of Jewishness and the Holocaust to justify their occupation.
He also pointed to how we can resist: the girl in the film who resisted by hiding food for prisoners.
Solidarityāthe opposite of blocking aid.
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The scene of resistance: "A young woman, rendered almost ghostlike by the camera, clandestinely moves through a construction site beneath a railway that runs into the camp. She places apples in the earth for the starving prisoners on work duty to find the following day."
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Feb 25 ā¢ 8 tweets ā¢ 4 min read
How do Israeli universities contribute to Israel's propaganda machine?
š§µ of @mayaywind on how Israeli universities aid state "Hasbara":
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(From a @radioagainst interview on her book, Towers of Ivory & Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom)
#BDS
Israeli universities have institutes, resources, and syllabi for state propaganda purposes.
For example, the Comper Center makes propaganda "to help the Israeli state rehabilitate its image in the international community and evade accountability for its war crimes."
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Feb 14 ā¢ 15 tweets ā¢ 6 min read
Why is it so hard for people to recognize Israel's violence in Gaza as genocide?
Robin DG Kelley points us back to 1948, when the UN failed to identify colonialism as genocidal. Against this "colonizer's justice," South Africa's #ICJ case is a redemptive act.
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The ICJ ruling helped legitimate the term genocide "for a lot of people who were on the fence."
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Feb 6 ā¢ 10 tweets ā¢ 4 min read
Why do so many German Antifa leftists support Israel against Palestinians?
-> Here is a š§µ of @Emilydische explaining the strange phenomenon of the Antideutsche:
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(Transcribed from this š„ @thedigradio interview with @DanielDenvir -
) thedigradio.com/podcast/the-geā¦
The Antideutsche emerged in the early 90s, in response to German reunification, as an anti-German nationalist movement, which "was pro-Israel and also pro-American," in response to the anti-imperialist German left who were "involved with the Palestinian militant movements."
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Feb 1 ā¢ 20 tweets ā¢ 7 min read
Government acts conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism make the trope of āthe self-hating Jewā into a policy that suppresses criticism of Israel.
One way to counter this is to dismantle the discourse of self-hating/self-loving Jews.
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1/20
Responding to the threat of anti-Zionist Jewsā protests to the Zionist status quo, acts equating anti-Zionism and antisemitism are intended to dismiss their critiques of Israel as self-hatredāa form of irrational, emotional bias.
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Jan 28 ā¢ 13 tweets ā¢ 5 min read
Zionists often accuse Jews who criticize Israel of being āself-hating Jews.ā
Hereās a š§µthat dismantles this trope and counters it with a view of anti-Zionism as an affirmation of humanity.
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As an anti-Zionist Jew, rather than feeling shame over being a Jew, I feel āanger at what other Jews are doingā through their support of Israel, which oppresses the Palestinians.
(Text from Mike Marqusee, _If I Am Not For Myself: Journey of an Anti-Zionist Jew_, p. 290)
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Dec 14, 2023 ā¢ 4 tweets ā¢ 2 min read
āPalestinians did not choose the identity of their occupiers. Their resistance is not antisemitic; it is anti-colonial.ā
- a crucial distinction by @agelender, from her essay, āEquating Anti-Zionism to Antisemitism Is a Slap in the Face to Jews Like Meā
commondreams.org/opinion/anti-zā¦
āā¦by smearing people who speak out for Palestinian rights as āantisemitic,ā Zionists (most of whom are Christians) dilute the word, distract from genocide, and further endanger Palestinians and all who stand with them, including Jews.ā
In 13th c. Lower Germany, a religious convert group called the Sisters and Brothers of the Common Life instituted ascending levels in their schools.
These first "graded levels" were the institutional basis for educationās vertical trajectory of individualized development.
Jul 14, 2019 ā¢ 6 tweets ā¢ 7 min read
I wrote this book out of LOVE for my friends and comrades
in DEFIANCE of our precarious academic conditions
as REVENGE against academia for killing us
& as a TOOL for destroying the educational machine that destroys us.
Please enjoy the intro here: upress.umn.edu/book-division/ā¦
What would you do if academiaās precarity was killing your friends and pushing you out?
I wrote a book for revenge ā as a toy/tool/weapon to mess with, defy, and dismantle the academic-capitalist regime.
As a USC alum who had a full ride thanks to my (not faked) SATs, I might defend a myth of meritocracy in light of #CollegeScam. But nah.
Why assume education must be defended?
Unpopular opinion: education is & always has been a tool for perpetuating the class system.
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Rather than defending higher education, letās take an abolitionist approach to university studies.
Education is one possible mode of study among many alternatives.
Educationās elements emerged as reactions to people's struggles bound up with alternative modes of study.